Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power: of hate, of ownership, of hierarchy; of sadism, of dominance. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel when the alienated worker… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving? — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
[I]n the male sexual lexicon, which is the vocabulary of power, erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women's bodies. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There is no place on earth, no day or night, no hour or minute, when one is not a Jew or a woman. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the genuflection of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Inferiority is not banal or incidental even when it happens to women. It is not a petty affliction like bad skin or circles under… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are “sex-negative” without qualification or examination, perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Feminism exists so that no woman ever has to face her abuser in isolation, alone. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“people ask, well, dont sweet things happen? yes, indeed, many sweet things, but sweet doesnt keep you from dying, making love doesnt keep you… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy on behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image